Pollard says deputy leadership race should focus on delivery

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Defence minister Luke Pollard says the upcoming Labour deputy leadership contest is a chance for a "constructive and positive debate" about how to speed up delivery of the party’s manifesto. He says ministers are determined to "go faster and further" in delivering the change people voted for following criticism from senior Labour figures. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00We want to go faster and further. We want to implement our manifesto quicker and I think

00:05it's right that as we look towards a deputy leadership contest that we have a constructive

00:09and positive debate about how we can do more, how we can deliver more of the change that people

00:14voted for. I'm looking forward to that discussion, that debate and certainly as a minister tasked

00:20with going faster on delivery, I know that every single minister appointed in the reshuffle at the

00:25weekend will be determined to make sure that growth and delivering our manifesto are the top of our priority list.

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